Species Clemacantha goliath (Gray, 1834)
- Phasma (Diura) goliath Gray, G.R. 1834. Descriptions of several species of Australian Phasmata. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 45-46 [45].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Australia. - Phasma (Diura) acheron Gray, G.R. 1834. Descriptions of several species of Australian Phasmata. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 45-46 [46].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown juv. (sex unknown), Australia (as New Holland). - Cyphocrania versifasciata Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1839. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret i-xviii, 1-776, Atlas pls 1-14. [dated 1838] [235].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, locality unknown. - Cyphocrania versirubra Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1839. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret i-xviii, 1-776, Atlas pls 1-14. [dated 1838] [235].
Type data:
Holotype OUM 630 ♀ adult, unknown, labelled Brés [Brazil] in error. - Cyphocrania herculeana Charpentier, T. 1845. Orthoptera descripta et depicta. Leipzig : Lipsiae ii, vi 120 pp. 60 pls. [1] [incorrect subsequent spelling, as Cyphocrania].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♀ adult, Java. - Clemacantha regale Rainbow, W.J. 1897. Description of two new Australian Phasmas, together with a synopsis of the Phasmidae of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 3(2): 34-37 [34].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♀ adult, Narrabri, NSW. - Cyphocrana hanitschi Sharp, D. 1898. Account of the Phasmidae, with notes on the eggs. 75-94 pls vii-ix in Willey, A. (ed.). Zoological Results, Based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere collected during 1895, 1896 and 1897. Cambridge : University Press. [89] [incorrect subsequent spelling, as Cyphocrania].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, ?Java. - Eurycnema magnifica Kirby, W.F. 1904. Notes on Phasmidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) South Kensington, with descriptions of New Species. Nos I & II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 13: 372-377, 429-449 [439].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, 'Probably New Guinea'. - Eurycnema viridissima Kirby, W.F. 1904. Notes on Phasmidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) South Kensington, with descriptions of New Species. Nos I & II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 13: 372-377, 429-449 [440].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ adults, North Australia and Moreton Bay, QLD.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Generic Combinations
- Clemacantha goliath (Gray, 1834). —
Rainbow, W.J. 1897. Description of two new Australian Phasmas, together with a synopsis of the Phasmidae of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 3(2): 34-37 [34] (new combination as type species of the genus Clemacantha (= Phasma (Diura) goliath Gray, 1834))
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, herbivore.
Extra Ecological Information
Male volant and mesopterous, female flightless and mesopterous.
General References
Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2(2) 1050 pp. [578] (as Cyphocrania, emendation of Cyphocrana Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828)
Hennemann, F.H., Conle, O.V. & Suzuki, S. 2015. A study of the members of the tribe Phasmatini Gray, 1835, that occur within the boundaries of Wallacea (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Phasmatinae: “Lanceocercata”). Zootaxa 4008: 1-74 [26]